Pavel Chagochkin/Shutterstock July 26, 2021 Militaries plunder science fiction for technology ideas, but turn a blind eye to the genre’s social commentary Will Slocombe, University of Liverpool Science fiction doesn’t just introduce us to speculative technologies – the genre explores how they might affect society too.
Augmented warrior. U.S. Army/Flickr November 30, 2017 Technologically enhanced humans: a look behind the myth Gérard Dubey, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School Will bionic humans, augmented by hi-tech prostheses and microchips, be a benefit for humanity? The reality is more mixed.
Augmentation technologies will challenge what it means to be human. WebWizard July 13, 2012 Augmentation technologies are here but are people listening? Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow, University of Sydney “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” William Gibson, Count…